[7/100] days of productivity
worked on my May wrap-up article for my Substack, that will be out tomorrow, read A LOT (I'm currently juggling 4 books), and rearranged my bookshelf.
“Let go of the idea of winning or losing. In the game of life, the most important thing is just showing up and doing your best.”
— Unknown
Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo, dated 23 December 1881
May 2025 wrap-up
The Closed Doors by Pauline Albanese - 4/5
The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras - 4/5
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas - 4/5
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese - 5/5
Among Women Only by Cesare Pavese - 5/5
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch - 5/5
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart - 4.25/5
10 Days in a Mad House by Nellie Bly - 4/5
wonderful reading month!
check out my reviews here 💌
paintings details and words from the art exhibit I visited this morning.
Then he looked up at her with that awful appeal in his full, glowing eyes. She was utterly incapable of resisting it. From her breast flowed the answering, immense yearning over him; she must give him anything, anything.
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
[11/100] days of productivity
It's Monday, so...you know the gist.
Read, eat, write, repeat.
IN 150 CHARACTERS OR LESS - Nikita Gill
April 20th, 1935 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)
Luigi Rossi - Primavera (detail)